Immigration reform legislation now being hotly debated in the Congress would, if passed, help manufacturers by providing them with access to a larger pool of skilled labor, claims the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and Wisconsin’s chamber of …
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Remember the days when the U.S. manufacturing industry was awash with claims that a massive skills gap was causing 600,000 manufacturing jobs to go unfilled, undermining industrial growth and global competitiveness? Well it just isn’t so, claims a new rep…
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As they have struggled to find enough workers with the skills needed to keep new, more collaborative and automated plants running, manufacturing leaders for years have repeated some by-now familiar complaints:
• Students were being steered away from manu…
As they have struggled to find enough workers with the skills needed to keep new, more collaborative and automated plants running, manufacturing leaders for years have repeated so… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/chipping-away-skills-shortage/

By 2020, the U.S. could capture between $70-$115 billion of additional annual exports from other nations and create between 2.5-5 million extra factory and associated service jobs – all driven by increased manufacturing competitiveness.
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